Who spends more? Party Ideology and Public Spending in 16 Post-Socialist Countries

Q2 Social Sciences Politics in Central Europe Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.2478/pce-2021-0010
D. Bursać
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Abstract The article is revisiting a never-concluded debate about the partisan effect on public spending. It explores the impact of the ruling parties’ ideological orientation, operationalised in a single-dimensional left-right scale, on budget expenditures in Central and Eastern Europe. The research is conducted within an expanded time series covering the complete period since the fall of one-party regimes in sixteen former socialist countries, where the issue has remained under-studied, especially in comparison with a number of similar studies focusing mostly on developed Western democracies. The findings moderately support the main hypothesis demonstrating that, although an ideology matters, there are also other more significant predictors of the spending among political, economic or other contextual variables related to a specific transitional framework of the countries in question. The same conclusion applies to the total consumption, as well as to the examined budget segments of social transfers and education, while the environmental spending seems to be completely unrelated to the partisan variable.
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谁花得更多?16个后社会主义国家的政党意识形态与公共支出
摘要这篇文章重新审视了一场从未结束的关于党派对公共支出影响的辩论。它探讨了执政党的意识形态取向对中欧和东欧预算支出的影响。这项研究是在一个扩展的时间序列内进行的,涵盖了自16个前社会主义国家一党政权倒台以来的整个时期,这些国家对这一问题的研究仍然不足,尤其是与主要关注发达西方民主国家的一些类似研究相比。研究结果适度支持了主要假设,即尽管意识形态很重要,但在与相关国家的特定过渡框架相关的政治、经济或其他背景变量中,也有其他更重要的支出预测因素。同样的结论也适用于总消费,以及社会转移和教育的审查预算部分,而环境支出似乎与党派变量完全无关。
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Politics in Central Europe
Politics in Central Europe Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations
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期刊介绍: POLITICS IN CENTRAL EUROPE – The Journal of the Central European Political Science Association is an independent and internationally peer-reviewed scientific journal in political science and international relations. The Journal was established in 2005 as the scientific review that publishes scientific essays, book reviews and information about conferences and other events connected with Central European issues. POLITICS IN CENTRAL EUROPE publishes politics, policy analysis, international relations and other sub-disciplines of political original, peer-reviewed manuscripts that provide scientific essays focusing on issues in comparative science, as well as original theoretical or conceptual analyses. All essays must contribute to a broad understanding of the region of Central Europe. Our goal is to give scholars from Central Europe and beyond the opportunity to present the results of their research.
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